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Dick Forslund

Dr Dick Forslund is an economist and researcher at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) in Cape Town.

Latest Work

Dick Forslund

17 February 2025

Rethinking fiscal policy: Can SA break free from austerity to fight child malnutrition?

5 min

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Dick Forslund

7 June 2022

There is no U-turn – The public sector austerity negotiations and the ‘4.5%’ spin

3 min

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Dick Forslund

7 February 2022

The real reasons behind South Africa’s R11bn loan from the World Bank

5 min

3

Dick Forslund

29 August 2021

Public sector ‘retrenchments’: It’s time for unions to take the austerity bull by the horns

5 min

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Dick Forslund

23 August 2021

Law and austerity: Constitutional Court hears unions’ appeal on public sector wage agreement

5 min

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The great wealth tax debate: How to fund a constitutional state

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED

3 February 2021

The great wealth tax debate: How to fund a constitutional state

7 min

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Dick Forslund

24 June 2020

Borrowing from the IMF will only deepen South Africa’s crisis

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Saving Eskom and saving the public sector and its employees from austerity

Maverick Citizen: #BUDGET2020 OP-ED

26 February 2020

Saving Eskom and saving the public sector and its employees from austerity

6 min

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Dick Forslund

21 January 2020

SAA: Tito Mboweni’s R2bn game of financial chicken

4 min

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Dick Forslund

29 August 2019

The Government Employee Pension Fund, budget austerity and the Eskom debt crisis

5 min

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Dick Forslund

18 February 2019

Putting Eskom’s debt on the government balance sheet could lead to another credit downgrade and disastrous budget austerity

7 min

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There are alternatives to permanent economic depression

22 October 2018

There are alternatives to permanent economic depression

8 min

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